Kowalczyk, Beverly A. 1940-2025 Overland Park, Kan.

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – Beverly Ann Kowalczyk, 84, of Overland Park, Kansas, passed peacefully April 10, 2025. She was born to James and Catherine (Bennett) Halter May 26, 1940.

After graduating from the Convent of the Sacred Heart, St. Joseph, and Fontbonne College, St. Louis, she earned a master’s degree in Education at the University of Kansas. For 29 years she taught English at Center High School in Kansas City.

In 1973 she married Peter Kowalczyk and had a son, Peter, in 1981. She outlived both, as well as sisters, Mary Brott, Virginia Girard, and Rose Marie Wilde; and brothers, James T. Halter and Father Robert Halter, O.S.B. Reading, writing, speaking/singing in French, traveling, socializing with family and neighbors, and having dogs gave her joy.

Survivors are sisters, Margaret Gach and Helen Grable, of St. Joseph; and sister-in-law, Rita Levens, of Westwood, Kansas. “Aunt Bev” will be missed.

Visitation will be at 9 a.m. on Monday, April 14, at Cure’ of Ars Catholic Church, 9401 Mission Road, Leawood, Kansas, followed by Mass of Christian Burial at 10 a.m. Burial in Resurrection Catholic Cemetery, Lenexa, Kansas.

Fond memories and condolences may be left at www.mcgilleyhoge.com. As published in the St. Joseph News-Press.